Poems By Edward Capern, Rural postman of Bideford, Devon. de CAPERN (Edward) - 1856

London: David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1856. Globe 8vo; half-title not called for; List of Subscribers at end; pp.viii+200; moss-green horizontal straight morocco cloth, ruled and elaborately blocked blind on sides, ruled, elaborately blocked, and lettered, gilt on spine; end-papers faced yellow. Minute, barely visible, restoration to cloth at head of spine; old glue marks on end-papers; a little scattered light foxing; in general effect, a very nice copy, nonetheless. Capern’s rather scarce first book, published on subscription. Pp.[iii] - vi are occupied by a Preface to the Subscribers by W.F. Rock, who edited the volume. 532 copies were subscribed, the subscribers including William Mackworth Praed (at that time Recorder of Barnstaple, Bideford, and South Molton), Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Kingsley, Eliza Cook, Leitch Ritchie, J.A. Froude, Alexander Smith, Roland Hill, Viscount Palmerston, and the Duke of Wellington. Miles, X. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.